Aug 31: Learn about "Vision Louisville"

August 31 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn about the new "Vision Louisville" Initiative...and share your vision!

http://www.visionlouisville.com/

About Vision Louisville

We are ready to harness our collective energy and chart our path to the future, to decide how we want Louisville to look, feel, and flow in 2040. Inherent in defining our future is also defining what it is about our place today that is essential to its quality and how those essential characteristics connect to one another to further enhance our quality of place. To answer these questions and give form to our future path will take innovative thought and courage. It will take vision.

Our undertaking is bold. The Vision Louisville initiative will use a collaborative and inclusive planning process to explore and build a vision for a prosperous and vibrant future for our city. Focused on Louisville's built environment and its development over the next 25 years, the outcomes of the initiative will guide future development and investment while emphasizing growth, authenticity, preservation, sustainability, and quality of place. Vision Louisville will help us aspire to what is possible, not just what is probable, and will ask us as a community to strive for Louisville's greatest potential.

Why now? Change is upon us — from the economy to the environment, the pace of change in cities world-wide is both rapid and far reaching. Meeting change head on and being proactive about our community's future is not just about being competitive. Although being competitive is important, we also need to be about city-building — shaping our environment, building a beautiful and attractive city, and establishing a positive future.

Aug 30: Sharing the Joy and Pain ALWAYS

August 30 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chodron's Advice on Sharing Our Suffering and Joy

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/139724e7f2cf623a

THINK OF OTHERS

Sharing the heart is a simple practice that can be used at any time and in every situation. It enlarges our view and helps us remember our interconnection.

The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition that others also feel this. It’s a way of acknowledging when we are closing down and of training to open up. When we encounter any pleasure or tenderness in our life, we cherish that and rejoice. Then we make the wish that others could also experience this delight or this relief.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. If this is the only training we ever remember to do, it will benefit us tremendously and everyone else as well. It’s a way of bringing whatever we encounter onto the path of awakening bodhichitta.

Aug 29: Learn about the Int'l "White Ribbon Campaign

August 29 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn about the International "White Ribbon Campaign" which Enlists Men to Eliminate Violence Against Women

http://www.whiteribbon.ca/

What is the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC)?
The White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) is the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women (VAW). In over fifty-five countries, campaigns are led by both men and women, even though the focus is on educating men and boys. In some countries it is a general public education effort focused on ending violence against women.

Aug 28: Learn about Free University for All People

August 28 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn About University of the People

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/08/27/160116814/online-university-for-all-balances-big-goals-expensive-realities

Naylea Omayra Villanueva Sanchez, 22, lives on the edge of the Amazon rain forest in Tarapoto, northern Peru.

"Where I live, there's only jungle," Villanueva Sanchez says through an interpreter. "A university education is inaccessible."

And that's true in more ways than one. Villanueva Sanchez is in a wheelchair, the result of a motorcycle accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

She is now enrolled in the University of the People, an online institution that claims it is "the world's first, tuition-free, nonprofit, online university." It's aimed at poor students around the globe who would otherwise not have access to higher education.

Aug 27 Tip: Experience "Red" about artist Mark Rothko

August 26 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Discover "Red" a play about the art work of Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko

http://www.amazon.com/Oberon-Modern-Plays-John-Logan/dp/1840029447/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1346013646&sr=8-2&keywords=red+and+mark+rothko#_

A prominent figure among the New York School painters, Mark Rothko moved through many artistic styles until reaching his signature 1950s motif of soft, rectangular forms floating on a stained field of color. Heavily influenced by mythology and philosophy, he was insistent that his art was filled with content, and brimming with ideas. A fierce champion of social revolutionary thought, and the right to self-expression, Rothko also expounded his views in numerous essays and critical reviews.

 

Aug 26: Thank you God for everything which is yes

August 26 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Savor this wonderful poem by e.e. cummings:

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

 

Aug 25: Unleash Poetic Imagination

August 25 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Explore Poetic Imagingation with Poet David Whyte

http://www.soundstrue.com/weeklywisdom/?source=podcast&p=6475&category=AGM&version=full

While the poet’s craft requires a mastery of verse, meter, and language,
there is a kind of imagination that is the true heart of poetry. As poet
David Whyte says, this is not the sort of imagination that allows us to
think up clever ideas or new inventions—it is our capacity to see beyond
the surface of appearance and into what is true. “Poetic imagination,” says
David, “is your ability to discover a central image inside you that makes
sense of all the thousands of other images you receive.” In this audio clip,
he provides a beautiful illustration of poetic imagination in action, revealing
through example why this is a faculty each one of us possesses.